The fighting Filipino congressman easily won the ring debate but could not contain his contempt after the lopsided 12-round decision. When the vanquished challenger tried to congratulate Pacquiao at the end of the WBO welterweight title fight, Pacquiao quickly turned and trudged away in disgust.

"The people want to see punches exchanged; that's what I wanted," Pacquiao said. "But Mosley didn't want to fight toe to toe. He was always running."

It was a desultory performance by Mosley. He was paid a minimum $5 million.

"I don't think he tried to win; I think he just tried to survive," said Freddie Roach, Pacquiao's trainer. "When you get to that point, it's time to call it a day."

Mosley, 39, wore sunglasses to help conceal swelling on his face, but found it difficult to mask his bruised pride.

"I still feel young, but I guess sometimes Father Time catches up with you," he said, undecided about his ring future.

"When you analyze everything that's out there, it's very, very difficult to get somebody who can be very competitive," Arum said.

Pacquiao (53-3-2) covets a third fight vs. Mexico's Juan Manuel Marquez, who holds two lightweight belts. They rumbled to a draw in 2004 and Pacquiao won a split decision in 2008.

Arum will try to secure a deal this week for a Nov. 5 or Nov. 12 bout in Las Vegas. Otherwise, it's either junior welterweight champ Tim Bradley or Zab Judah.

But the public craves Pacquiao vs. Floyd Mayweather Jr.

Negotiations unraveled last year after Mayweather demanded the 32-year-old champion submit to drug testing. Mayweather's career has been derailed by a series of legal troubles. Mayweather, 34, is 41-0 and has fought only once since 2009.

Even if they dueled in the desert, the outcome might be equally unsatisfying. Five of Mayweather's last six fights have gone the distance. "He would beat the crap out of Mayweather, I guarantee you," Arum said. "The guy who knows that best is … Floyd Mayweather Jr."

It was a lesson Mosley (46-7-1) learned in the third round when the southpaw champion blasted him to the canvas with a hard left hand. But while Mosley was in no mood to get physical, Pacquiao acquiesced to his opponent's leeriness. A silent pact of non-aggression seemed to ensue.

The combatants were polite, tapping gloves at the end of each round to signify their respect.

"I asked him, 'Why are you touching gloves with this guy? Is he your friend?' " Roach said. "I hate that. I hate that in a fighter."

Roach said he urged Pacquiao to "make it personal and knock this guy out; show the world how good you are."

At least one Pac-Man fan didn't need convincing. After the bout, Hilton strolled into the news conference and sat at the dais. She wore a low-cut black dress, a beaming smile and revealed her fight-night delight.

At a recent amateur promotion, a female fighter approached boxing legend Christy Martin and declared that Martin was scared to fight her.

By Chris Farina, Top Rank

Christy Martin, shown during a workout at a gym in Hollywood, Calif., will fight June 4 for the first time since September 2009.

By Chris Farina, Top Rank

Christy Martin, shown during a workout at a gym in Hollywood, Calif., will fight June 4 for the first time since September 2009.

"Do you know how ridiculous that statement is?" Martin told her. "I just looked down the barrel of a 9-millimeter (pistol), and the shot went off and hit me in the chest. No, I'm not scared. Get in line."

Christy Martin, 42, is many things, but mostly she's a survivor. She's back in the fight game — she steps in the ring for the first time in nearly two years on June 4 on the Julio Cesar Chavez Jr.-Sebastian Zbik undercard — six months after being stabbed repeatedly, shot and left for dead by her husband in their Florida home.

Martin said she escaped when her much older husband, Jim, thinking she was dead, got in the shower to wash the blood off. She said she flagged down and nearly "carjacked" a motorist and begged him to take her to the hospital. Doctors needed three hours just to stabilize her enough to transport her to the trauma unit.

"The (doctors) gave me a lot of blood," Martin said in a phone interview Wednesday. "It was scary. I kept asking all the doctors and nurses, 'Am I gonna die? Please don't let me die.' "

Martin's oddysey began after she told her husband — 25 years older and living separately in the same house — that she was leaving him for a woman, Sherry Lusk, with whom she was having a relationship.

"He had been telling me for 20 years he would kill me if I ever left him," Martin says. "There were threats of not just killing me but blackmailing me. I told him before I married him that I had had a relationship with Sherry. I was trying to be honest and do the right thing, and he … held that over my head. He said, 'The boxing world would crucify you'. ... He had convinced me the boxing world hated me, my family hated me and he was all I had. So I had to stay there."

The night of the attack, her husband came in her room, said he had something to show her and made a motion to reach behind his back. "I leaned over and saw a knife sticking out of his shorts. I said, 'What are you going to do, kill me?' as he had been promising for 20 years. Then it was just like boom!

"All of a sudden he stabbed me three times in my side. I didn't realize I'd been stabbed. I thought he just hit me. Then he stabbed me once in my breast. That made me bleed a lot. I think he was going for my heart."

When Martin tried to kick him away with her left leg after being stabbed, "he cut my calf almost completely from my leg. … We ended up on the ground. I tried to fight him and felt a gun in his pocket, and I realized it was my pink 9-millimeter (Glock).

"He bashed my head into the floor and into the dresser and we're going back and forth. I was trying to get away from him, but I was never able to get the gun out of his pocket."

For one hour she said, Jim attacked and tortured her, leaving her to die on the floor as she begged for help. She knew her lung was punctured; she could hear the gurgling sound.

"I think he was just waiting to see if I was going to die. Finally he came back in, stood at my feet, pointed the gun at me and shot me. Missed my heart by 4 inches. The crazy thing is the bullet went through the same hole as the stab wound in my breast."

He goes on trial Oct. 3 in Florida, charged with attempted murder.

Asked if she was afraid for her life once he gets out of jail, Martin said, "Absolutely. Not only because he said he would kill me, but he told me he knew people that could make me disappear."

She didn't attend the May 7 Pacquiao-Mosley fight in Las Vegas "because I thought maybe he sent someone there to look for me."

Martin was once the best female fighter in the world under promoter Don King. She made lots of money — nearly $500,000 for her fight with Laila Ali— and graced the cover of Sports Illustrated in 1996. Her seminal moment came when she fought on the Mike Tyson-Frank Bruno undercard.

Her career suffered after a 2005 fight with Lucia Rijker, known as "Million Dollar Lady," in which the winner was to collect $1 million, was canceled when Rijker ruptured her Achilles tendon.

Now, having recovered from her injuries from the attack, she courageously faces the comeback of her life. She called Miguel Diaz, her former cutman and trainer.

"I reached out to Miguel," she says, "because I knew if I didn't have it, he would take me off to the side, put his arm around me and say, 'Christy, we've been together way too long for me to let you get back in the ring and embarrass yourself, get hurt or embarrass the people involved with you."

After watching her in the gym, Diaz agreed to become her head trainer and she signed with Bob Arum's Top Rank Promotions.

"It's really where I want to be," says Martin, who only spars with male fighters. "I feel like (Arum) is still the best promoter out there, and he does it with such class that I want to be involved with him."

Martin was inspired, she says, by Bernard Hopkins' victory last weekend that made him boxing's oldest champion at 46.

"He looked better than I've ever seen him in his entire career," she says. "I'm a big B-Hop fan and I've watched him pretty much his entire career, and even fought on the same card with him during the Don King days. To me he's amazing.

"It actually gives me hope that I can come back better. Having Miguel as my trainer, I feel like I'm training like a pro and I'm really learning. I feel like I hit a plateau (earlier in her career) and I never really got any better. Now I feel like I'm a much better fighter, more well-rounded and smarter."

Martin (49-5-3, 31 KOs) will look for career win No. 50 when she faces Dakota Stone (9-8-5) in a six-round light middleweight matchup next weekend at Staples Center in Los Angeles.

Stone was the last boxer Martin fought before her nearly two-year hiatus. Martin won by majority decision in a fight many thought she lost.

"She's a tough girl," Martin says. "She doesn't have the shining record, but her losses came in other people's hometowns. I could've asked Top Rank to give me a cupcake, but I wanted to come right in and have a tough challenge."

Martin believes progress in women's boxing has slowed as she has aged and her career stalled. Other well-known female fighters, she believes, were in it more for personal gain than love of the sport.

"I think women's boxing moved throughout the '90s as my career moved," Martin says. "Then Mia (St. John) came along, and then Laila had an opportunity to keep the excitement going.

"(Laila) had every opportunity handed to her to really go out there and be a superstar in women's boxing. But I think her, Lucia, Mia, they all used boxing to further their personal careers, whether it be acting, endorsing products, whatever. I do it because I love the sport, and I think the fans see that."

Confidence was something Martin oozed during her heyday in the '90s. Whether it's still there remains to be seen. She believes it is.

"I think I have the confidence, I don't have the cockiness," Martin says. "I'm more confident going into this fight than I've been for some time, because I know I've put my work in, haven't taken any shortcuts, and just having Miguel in my ear to teach me to transition better from offense to defense, and know that I can land the big shots but I don't always have to take big shots."

Through it all, Martin, a West Virginia native nicknamed "Coal Miner's Daughter," and currently living in Las Vegas, feels blessed simply to be alive.

'Rampage' wins decision over Hamill at UFC 130

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LAS VEGAS -- Light-heavyweight Quinton "Rampage" Jackson confirmed his elite status by shutting down Matt "The Hammer" Hamill's wrestling game and thoroughly outboxing him on Saturday.

Jackson won a unanimous decision against Hamill in the main event of UFC 130 in Las Vegas. It was the second consecutive win for Jackson, an former champion and No. 4 among light-heavyweights in the USA TODAY/SB Nation consensus rankings.

Hamill suffered his first loss in six fights.

He tried to set up his wrestling with a mix of low kicks and punches, but Jackson saw every takedown shot coming and stuffed them. Hamill went 0-for-16 on takedown attempts.

"I saw it as soon as I got in there with him," Jackson said. " I saw how far he was standing away from me. I could tell he was setting up to take me down. He had some great low leg kicks, and it made me not do exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to throw some buffaloes on him. ... But he's a tough guy, so I couldn't do exactly what I wanted."

In the stand-up action, Jackson mixed up hooks to the body and head effectively, often countering after Hamill left himself open after missing his own punches. The cumulative pounding appeared to tire Hamill, who looked increasingly sluggish as the fight wore on.

As the fight slowed down in the final round, the crowd of more than 12,800 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena booed vociferously.

"Was the fight really that boring?" Jackson asked reporters as he left the arena.

Compustrike counted 57 power strikes for Jackson, compared to four for Hamill. Jackson, who has 14 knockout victories in his career, said he was trying to put Hamill to sleep but praised the latter's durability.

"Nobody's going to knock him out," Jackson said. "He's tough."

An aching hand might have affected Jackson's ability to land a knockout punch. Jackson held up his left hand during the post-fight press conference and described it as originally hurt in December while horsing around with a friend. It was reinjured while throwing a jab in training for the Hamill bout, Jackson said, adding that a doctor told him it was fractured.

Jackson will have his hand re-examined on Tuesday, he said. At the moment, the middle finger is swollen, he said, as he brandished the digit to reporters.

If his hand isn't seriously injured, Jackson will get the next title fight with light-heavyweight champion Jon Jones, UFC President Dana White said.

An extended injury rehab for Jackson means either Lyoto "The Dragon" Machida or "Suga" Rashad Evans will be the first challenger for Jones, White added.

• "All American" Brian Stann blasted consensus No. 8 middleweight Jorge Santiago with power punches for most of two rounds before stopping him with a technical knockout. It was Santiago's first fight in UFC since 2006. Officials later named the bout Fight of the Night, resulting in $70,000 bonuses for each fighter.

• Rick "Horror" Story won the biggest victory of his career with a unanimous decision over consensus No. 4 welterweight Thiago Alves.

• Also pulling off an upset was rapidly rising bantamweight Demetrious "Mighty Mouse" Johnson, who earned his second consecutive decision win against a legend of his weight class by beating former World Extreme Cagefighting champion Miguel Torres.

Johnson, who previously defeated Japanese icon Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto, cited his stand-up striking and wrestling as the difference. Torres, who stayed busy with submission attempts, but never came close to finishing Johnson.

• Heavyweight Travis Browne knocked out 6-foot-11 Stefan "Skyscraper" Struve with 49 seconds left in the first round. Browne landed a superman punch as Struve leaped forward to throw a knee strike. The result won UFC's Knockout of the Night award, yielding an additional $70,000 for Browne.

During the fight, Struve's habit of attempting knee strikes after breaking away from a clinch became apparent, Browne said. As the bout progresssed, his corner yelled for Browne to watch for the knee strike and have a counterpunch ready, he said.

• Gleison Tibau won the $70,000 Submission of the Night award for his second-round rear-naked choke of Rafaello Oliveira.

(AP) Yankees second. Cano homered to right on a full count. Martin walked. Posada grounded out, third baseman Figgins to first baseman Smoak, Martin to second. Swisher flied out to left fielder Peguero. On F.Hernandez's wild pitch, Martin to third. Gardner flied out to left fielder Peguero.

Yankees seventh. M.Saunders in as left fielder. Swisher safe at first on Smoak's error. Gardner hit into a double play, second baseman A.Kennedy to shortstop Ryan to first baseman Smoak, Swisher out. Jeter walked on a full count. Granderson tripled to right, Jeter scored. Teixeira walked. Al.Rodriguez struck out.

Cardinals in depth: Will they find a QB to make them a contender?

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Arizona Cardinals coach Ken Whisenhunt never asked, though he wished amid last season's 5-11 disaster that star quarterback Kurt Warner was still doing the quick step inside Arizona's pocket instead of on "Dancing with the Stars.''

"Kurt and I talked last year, but we never talked about him coming back. Now I'm sure Larry (Fitzgerald) may have talked to Kurt about coming back,'' Whisenhunt said, referencing his five-time Pro Bowl wide receiver.

"But I knew Kurt: When he said he was done -- he was done.''

Unfortunately, the 2010 Cardinals were also done the moment Warner retired in January, 2010 after leading Arizona to back-to-back postseason appearances, including a wrenching, last-minute Super Bowl XLIII loss to Pittsburgh.

"That was the one good thing -- not that coach didn't want me to come back -- and he joked here and there. But coach and the organization respect me enough that they wouldn't try to get me to do something like that because they knew I made the decision for the right reasons.

"I'm sure there were moments where they were like, 'Man, I wish we had Kurt back to help us through this.'... I had a number of guys early on saying, 'Hey, we're coming over to the house.' Another guy said, 'I'm blaming this season on you.'

"It was all in good fun.''

Consider five key questions the 2011 Cardinals must answer to return to championship contention starting with finding their Warner successor:

1. Who's the No. 1 quarterback target?

General manager Rod Graves says the Cardinals will aggressively pursue trades and free agency when league business re-opens in a bid to land the top-level passer they lacked with scatter-armed Derek Anderson, Max Hall, John Skelton and Richard Bartel.

"I learned from last year, it's good to get a quarterback that you know you can have who can play for a while,'' Whisenhunt said.

"We weren't strong enough as a team to compensate for not having the level of play at quarterback we'd had before ... Hopefully, we'll get it fixed."

Arizona's checkdown options include:

-- Kevin Kolb. At 26, the Texas native would be the ideal get for a franchise looking to recover from its Matt Leinart mistake as the 10th selection in 2006. The cost estimated by NFL Network analyst Charley Casserly is a 2012 first- and second rounder for a fifth-year quarterback with seven career starts.

Heck, the Atlanta Falcons surrendered five draft picks, including a 2012 first-rounder, to move up 21 spots in the draft for Alabama wideout Julio Jones.

"When you look at the guys out there and you're trying to find the best answer for the greatest value and the longest period of time, it's got to be Kevin Kolb,'' Warner said.

"He's got the big upside from the standpoint that he's young. He's just coming into his own. You've actually seen him play. ... And he's going to give you the possibility of a franchise quarterback for 10 years.''

Question is, will normally conservative owner Bill Bidwill dig that deep to get Whisenhunt the best quarterback available in the post-lockout market? One reason to think so is that with Bidwill and his son, Michael the team president extending the contracts of Graves and Whisenhunt through 2013, Kolb would represent a franchise quarterback to grow around.

-- Carson Palmer: A reunion with Palmer's former Southern California coach Pete Carroll in Seattle seems a more likely NFC West destination for the Cincinnati Bengals veteran. Palmer wants out of Cincinnati and has threatened to retire as an alternative. Palmer figures to come at an even steeper price than Kolb considering he'd likely cost a 2012 first-round pick AND his $11.5-million salary due this season. Plus, Palmer, 31, has thrown 33 interceptions the last two seasons.

"The best middle-ground is Carson Palmer,'' Warner said. "He's a gifted player who has all the tangibles you want in a prototypical quarterback. He's got plenty left in the tank -- still young enough that he can play and play well. He's built for that system."

-- Marc Bulger: Warner's former successor in St. Louis would seem a natural to succeed him in the desert. But Bulger didn't throw a pass last season as Joe Flacco's Baltimore Ravens backup.

"I look at Marc as a stopgap-type guy with a couple of years left,'' Warner said. "And the fact he hasn't started in a couple of years, there's some questions there about what exactly are you getting?''

-- Matt Hasselbeck: If Palmer is in as Carroll's Seahawks quarterback, that could leave Hasselbeck available as a proven winner who led Seattle to Super Bowl XL.

"He's a great leader who can still play," Warner said.

"And if you get him away from Seattle, it shifts the power in that division. Because that division has really been built around the quarterback the last five, six years. The team that has the best quarterback wins the division."

Bottom line? The Cardinals have to find a sharp passer capable of getting the ball consistently to Fitzgerald whose four-year, $40-million contract expires after the 2011 season.

Arizona's pass rush faded in 2010 with aging Joey Porter and Clark Haggans. A 29th-ranked defense managed 33 sacks with Porter and Haggans combining for 10. Porter and Haggans are both 34.

That opens the door for former Texas defensive end Acho as a smart, high-motor playmaker with 19 sacks the past two seasons. Acho played linebacker his first two seasons at Texas.

Given tighter coverage by rookie cornerback Patrick Peterson and fourth-year corner Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie, Acho could have an immediate impact at outside linebacker in tandem with defensive line talents Darnell Dockett, Calais Campbell and DT Dan Williams, who will benefit from an extra beat to get to opposing passers.

3. Who's the odd man out in an over-crowded backfield?

Tim Hightower's contract is up and he's been prone to fumbling. Chris "Beanie'' Wells has not lived up to 2009 first-round expectations, so Arizona selected the highest-rated player on its board, Virginia Tech running back Ryan Williams, with the 38th overall choice.

There is also third-down back LaRod Stephens-Howling.

Williams ran for 1,655 yards and 21 touchdowns in 2009 before a hamstring strain limited his 2010 production. He's an explosive, physical runner capable of taking any carry the distance.

"This guy's a playmaker,'' Warner said. "They continue to feel like, 'We haven't solved our quarterback issue. We have to be able to run the football.' And here's a guy with the ability to be more dynamic.

"I'm sure the fumble problems Tim and Beanie had weighed in it. But it's more, 'We have to run the football and here's a dynamic player who can help us do that.'''

4. Can a porous offensive line tighten up?

For all the talk about being a quarterback away from returning to the postseason -- one of the biggest culprits behind last season's crash was what went down up front.

One of the big reasons why none of the four quarterbacks who took snaps enjoyed consistent success was a sagging line that surrendered 50 sacks and struggled to open holes in the run game.

Nine-time Pro Bowl left guard Alan Faneca retired May 10. Eighth-year backup Rex Hadnot will likely replace Faneca. Right guard Deuce Lutui and center Lyle Sendlein are must-sign free agents. Arizona will likely be forced to dip into the free-agent pool to further bolster their interior line depth.

Lastly, Levi Brown struggled in last season's transition from right to left tackle.

"The key is try to build an identity -- what are you going to be as a football team? Then, find the right guys who can help you build that,'' Warner said.

5. -- Will Peterson have a Defensive Rookie of the Year impact?

Winning the NFC West starts by stopping St. Louis Rams quarterback Sam Bradford, last year's Offensive Rookie of the Year.

Peterson was deemed the best player on some draft boards. The 6-2, 222-pound cornerback's physical presence as a press-man and strong tackler should complement Rodgers-Cromartie, who struggled last season after a 2009 Pro Bowl campaign.

"To have two guys on the outside who have the ability to be shut-down corners allows Adrian Wilson to roam and blitz more and also allows Kerry Rhodes to be more of a playmaker,'' Warner said.

Peterson provides a strong matchup answer against big, physical receivers such as Seattle's Mike Williams and San Francisco's Michael Crabtree along with providing the Cardinals an added dimension as an explosive kick returner.